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I can usually tell the difference between a short story idea and a novel-length one when someone describes the idea to me.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about idea

And I'm sorry I just really have to question a lot of these New Wave people that say what they're doing is so radically new and so different. Cause I really don't see it.

Quote by Lester Bangs about question, people

But as far as this stuff being really new, really different that's something else again. Even the Sex Pistols were playing old Chuck Berry licks.

Quote by Lester Bangs about old, olderness, sex, being

Magic works differently for every author who's written for the series.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about magic

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about love, writing, common sense, sense

Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

Quote by Lester Bangs about nothing

Things do go in cycles so I never believe rock was really dead it was really finished or had it, it just comes back in a different form.

Quote by Lester Bangs about rocks, faith, things

What is so vastly original and new and different about The Pretenders? You know, she sounds like Sandie Shaw circa 1964, the band sounds like a million bands, so what.

Quote by Lester Bangs about contentment

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about rightness, things, time

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Quote by Richard Bach about contentment, light

In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about modesty

Everybody is individually different.

Quote by Sebastian Bach

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.

Quote by Sebastian Bach about life

I decided that I was going to do something totally different so that nobody could say that this (new project) wasn't as good as The Guess Who. They may not like it, but I didn't want to be compared.

Quote by Randy Bachman about good, good luck

The kind of folk-spirit behind the poet is, indeed, different in the Iliad and Beowulf and the Song of Roland from what it is in Milton and Tasso and Virgil.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poets, spirit

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about determination, poetry, poets, man

I really do think that if we had lost that case we would really live in a country that would be really quite different.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about country

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Quote by Francis Bacon about happiness, wisdom, man

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Quote by Francis Bacon about moral, self-control, man

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

Quote by Kenneth Peacock Tynan about actors, victims, bad luck, bad, work, world, good, good luck, people